PDP expels Sule Lamido’s deputy

Deputy Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Ahmad Mahmud, has been expelled from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for alleged anti-party activities.
He was alleged to have worked against the interest of his boss, Governor Sule Lamido, and the party during the March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections.
The expulsion order is contained in a statement by the PDP chairman of Galagamma ward in Gumel, Jigawa, Alhaji Ibrahim Kafinta, on Monday in Dutse
The chairman said the decision to expel Mahmud was taken during a stakeholders meeting held in his ward.
Kafinta alleged that the deputy governor had sabotaged PDP during the elections.
He said that the Gumel Local Government headquarters of the party had endorsed the expulsion.